| Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney - 1826 - 452 страници
...amusement of the bystanders, exclaiming, " Burra! Surra! be off! be off! mazal shouia! a little yet !" With discharges of musketry, and the train of horsemen,...ceremony is finished, and they are declared man and wife. During these rejoicings, a liberated slave of the bashaw's, who was returning to Bornou, had his thumb... | |
| Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney - 1826 - 562 страници
...train of * This is only called jaafa when a bride is conveyed in it — at other times a caramood. horsemen, &c. she is then conveyed to the bridegroom's...ceremony is finished, and they are declared man and wife. We had now to pass the Gibel Assoud, or Black Mountains : the northernmost part of this basaltic chain... | |
| 1826 - 598 страници
...discharges of rmisquetry and tb e train of horsemen &c. ; she is then conveyed to the bridegroom'» house, upon which it is necessary for her to appear...a bit of sugar in her mouth from the bridegroom's hands, and placing another bit in his with her own fair fingers, the ceremony is finished, and they... | |
| Dixon Denham - 1828 - 522 страници
...amusement of the bystanders, exclaiming, " Bitrra! Burra! be off! be off! mazal fthonia ! a little yet!" With discharges of musketry, and the train of horsemen,...ceremony is finished, and they are declared man and wife. During these rejoicings, a liberated slave of the bashaw's, who was returning to Bornou, had his thumb... | |
| Robert Huish - 1836 - 824 страници
...be off!) masal shouia, (a little yet.) With discharges of musketry, and the train of horsemen, Ac., she is then conveyed to the bridegroom's house, upon...ceremony is finished, and they are declared man and wife. They had now to pass the Gibel Assoud, or Black Mountains ; the northernmost part of this basaltic... | |
| 1891 - 902 страници
...North Africa. The bride is taken on a camel to the bridegroom's house, and, upon arriving there, " it is necessary for her to appear greatly surprised, and refuse to dismount ; the women scream, the men shout, and she is at length persuaded to enter." * Finally, an affectation of grief on the... | |
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